Monthly Archives: July 2015

It seems like we have at least a couple tours come through our Andrews County facility every week – as folks from all over the world want to take a look at our unique, state of the art nuclear waste disposal facility. But earlier this week, we had a very special group come through the…

York Daily Record editorial Updated: 07/27/2015 03:57:09 PM Take our nuclear waste — please! That twist on an old Henny Youngman joke is aimed at Chuck McDonald, spokesman for Waste Control Specialists in Texas. In a recent York Sunday News story about spent fuel rods piling up at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Plant, Mr.…

By Rod Baltzer It appears to me that the scientific and generating community is rallying around the concept of consolidated interim storage of used nuclear fuel. The growing momentum of consensus on this issue can be tracked by the continuous coverage in both the trade and mainstream press. In just the past few days,…

Houston Chronicle By Bernard L. Weinstein July 9, 2015 OPINION Since 1982, electric utilities (which is to say, ratepayers) have paid sizable sums into a Nuclear Waste Fund, an account administered by the U.S. Department of Energy, to cover the costs of permanent disposal of used nuclear fuel. Even after spending $10 billion at…